---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-043776"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WTW"
cik: "0001140536"
company_name: "WILLIS TOWERS WATSON PLC"
filed_at: "2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T16:54:46.364661+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# WTW appoints Paul Reilly as Non-Executive Chair; Paul Thomas to retire at 2025 AGM

## Summary
- Paul Thomas retires as Non-Executive Chair at the 2025 AGM (May 2025) and will not stand for re-election.
- Paul Reilly, current independent director since Oct 2022, selected as successor Non-Executive Chair effective after the AGM.
- Reilly serves on Corporate Governance and Human Capital committees; also Executive Chair of Raymond James Financial.
- Thomas's retirement is not due to any disagreement with the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-043776
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WTW
- cik: 0001140536
- company_name: WILLIS TOWERS WATSON PLC
- filed_at: 2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1140536/000119312525043776/0001193125-25-043776-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1140536/000119312525043776/d867965d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-043776
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-043776.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-043776.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Paul Reilly was appointed as Non-Executive Chair at WILLIS TOWERS WATSON PLC.
  - Action: selected
  - Role: Non-Executive Chair
  source text: The Board has selected Paul Reilly, an independent director of the Board, to become the Non-Executive Chair of the Board effective as of the conclusion of the 2025 AGM, subject to his re-election.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1140536/000119312525043776/0001193125-25-043776-index.htm
- Executive change
  Paul Thomas departed as Non-Executive Chair at WILLIS TOWERS WATSON PLC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Non-Executive Chair
  source text: Paul Thomas, the current Non-Executive Chair of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company (the “Company”), informed the Board that he intends to retire at the end of his current term and will not stand for reelection at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (“AGM”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1140536/000119312525043776/0001193125-25-043776-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.